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My neighbors were teasing me about always wanting to be in the city. They hate it, to put it lightly. But in a flat and relatively dry Midwest, the skyline is like mountains and the lake like a sea. I could sit and watch them every day. #chicago (at North Ave Pier)

A delightful true double, coming in at 10%, which this beer drinker feels is necessary to define a true double IPA.

This beer hits off with massive tropical fruit on the nose, and then coasts into a remarkably balanced taste on the tongue with a toasty, almost woody sourness of malty, hoppiness with just a hint of oily mouthfeel.

Pipeworks has a winner in this beer, simply because they’ve created a new experience of extreme balance.

As the beer warms, there is an almost rotted fruit smell that transitions to a ridiculously warm experience on the taste buds that hits all the senses and enlivens almost anything, I suppose. I’m drinking this with fried cheese curds, and I almost feel as though I’m consuming a tropical drink on a beach somewhere.

A refurbished boat will star as Pilar in a new film called “Hemingway and Fuentes,” helmed by Anthony Hopkins as Papa and Andy Garcia as his fishing buddy Gregorio Fuentes, according to this story by the Sun Sentinel.

Above is the real Pilar, as it sits at Finca Vijia, the Cuban home of Hemingway.

The refurbished boat is 4-feet shorter than Pilar, and so everything was scaled down a bit to fit.